Dragging Sand Creek for Minnows Author:William Kloefkorn In a pumpkin patch near Roca, Nebraska, early evening -- — Boy problems -- — Before long -- — Excess -- — Summer in Southcentral Kansas -- — God as a boy enjoys himself at recess -- — Last of the Mohicans -- — Kicking the can -- — Running home -- — Analgesic balm -- — Watching -- — Raising rabbits -- — Kansas Gothic, circa 1940 -- — Jumping rope -- — Definiti... more »ons --
Back home --
Drifting --
Wednesday night special: liver & onions --
Loup --
The others --
Memorial Day --
Just in case --
Shooting the ground --
Abandoned farmhouse --
Driving back home in my wife's father's old Chevrolet --
Wildwood, early autumn --
Feeding the horses --
Bivouac --
Outside the Sheldon Gallery, early June --
On the Kuskokwim river near Bethel, Alaska --
Granddaughters --
Building a kite for my wife's mother --
Soccer --
In the cemetery at Cedar Vale, late September --
Rubber bands --
Write a blank-verse poem using someone else's voice, someone dead, someone who you believe was not treated fairly while alive --
Archilles' heel --
Practicing Baptism --
Country western --
Working --
Driving away, late July --
And you know who you are --
In a motel room somewhere in Western Nebraska --
Revelation --
At Maggie's pond --
A man and a boy fishing --
Touring the campus arboretum, early Spring --
Early December --
Burning the house down --
Dragging Sand Creek for minnows --
Drowning in a common dream --
Remembering the Linden --
Rain, finally --
Late evening, and my mother is calling me in« less